AustLit

'Howard Jacobson traces the footsteps of Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive James and Robert Hughes arguing these Australian giants didn't just join the cultural revolution in the 60s, they led it.

'The Gang of Four are at their peak: Hughes becomes Time Magazine's art critic; Germaine writes The Female Eunuch; Clive becomes a junior member of the London literati; Barry makes a Barry MacKenzie movie.' (Production summary)

'WIZARDS OF OZ is a documentary series for ABC1 and BBC4, focusing on four Australians – satirist Barry Humphries, art critic Robert Hughes, writer and thinker Germaine Greer, and poet, writer and broadcaster Clive James – who left Australia in the

1950s and 1960s and became cultural icons, and sometimes iconoclasts, in the great cultural kingdoms of London and New York. The series is hosted by Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson, who left Britain in 1964 to replace Germaine Greer as a lecturer at the University of Sydney.' (Source: Screen Australia website)

'On what he calls ‘the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities.

'In pursuit of the best of Australian good times, he joins revelers at Uluru, argues with racists in the Kimberleys, parties with wine-growers in the Barossa and falls for ballet dancers in Perth. And even as vexed questions of national identity and Aboriginal land rights present themselves, his love for Australia and Australians never falters. ' (Publication summary)